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Chinese state media lash out at the U.S. for threatening Hong Kong and China with sanctions

  • June 01, 2020

Xinhua, another Chinese state news agency, accused the U.S. in a commentary Monday of wanting to use the “Hong Kong card” to curb China’s development.

“The United States’ attempt to deter China’s development by interfering in Hong Kong affairs will not succeed,” it said, according to CNBC’s translation of the Chinese text.

The state-owned China Daily published a similar rhetoric on Sunday and said the U.S. wants to sow discord on the mainland just as it did in Hong Kong, as “they want a China that is not prosperous” and where the rule of law can be trampled upon, the article said.

“They want a China where their ‘diplomats’ could intervene freely in its domestic affairs,” it added.

The U.S. “better give up that dream and come back to reality” as the current violence spreading across the U.S. “shows how deeply the US society is divided,” the article added. “US politicians should do their jobs and help solve problems in the US, instead of trying to create new problems and troubles in other countries.”

Global Times, a tabloid under the ruling party’s People’s Daily newspaper, drew parallels between the protests in Hong Kong and Trump’s tweet that the protesters “at the White House had little to do with the memory of George Floyd.”

“The anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong last year turned extremely violent. Did the violence have anything to do with the bill? When the bill was officially withdrawn, why did the protesters still take to the street?” said the Global Times in an opinion piece on Sunday. It was referring to a proposed extradition bill which would have paved the way for criminal suspects in Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China — the bill was subsequently withdrawn, but not before sparking months of unrest in the territory. 

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/01/chinese-state-media-hits-back-at-trumps-sanctions-threat-on-hong-kong-beijing.html

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